As part of Fair Trade Fortnight 2021 , WCIA’s online conversation focused on ‘remembering the people not the products’. Guest speaker Mike Gidney CEO of Fair Trade UK provided an insightful talk on the intersection between Fair Trade and Climate Justice. He started by wondering what should we do next […]
Wales and the Spanish Civil War – Memoriam to the work of Hywel Francis
WCIA’s ‘Temple of Peace’ team and supporters Wales-wide are saddened to learn of the passing of prominent Welsh Internationalist, historian and former MP for Aberavon Dr Hywel Francis on February 14th 2021, aged 74, at Morriston Hospital. Wales Online ‘Tributes pour in for former Welsh MP Hywel Francis‘ South Wales […]
Educating for International Understanding & Human Rights
Education for International Understanding, Human Rights & Peace The loss of access to European funding, particularly Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps funding, and the cut in UK Aid is an impending disaster for education for international understanding, human rights and peace. In a world facing climate disaster, racked by conflict […]
HIV/AIDS-Informed: A way to break free
In the year of 2020 we are seeing an explosive increase of the awareness pivoting around what a global pandemic entails given the multiple outbreaks of Covid-19 throughout the world. That is to say that its media coverage and/or government response, although uneven and visibly unsuccessful in many so-called developed […]
Sameness and otherness, yet togetherness
Etymology situates tolerance within Latin roots. But tolerance transcends the realm of words to permeate through the realm of actions, hence its antiquity. Without it, humankind wouldn’t have thrived in adversity regardless of the innumerable historic occurrences when tolerance was put aside or simply forgotten in trying to obliterate diversity […]
Don’t shoot, I’m a journalist! – A battle to protect the truth
I am going to tell you a story and like some stories, there is just two possible outcomes. People would rather I choose a happy ending, but unfortunately, this story falls into the opposite. For those who are protagonists of a story with a sad ending, society may make them […]
Democracy under attack –Violence & Repression
A new generation against the old? The democratic processes are under attack all around the world. The use of violence, threats of violence, arrests, beating, torture and imprisonment is widespread with the aim of restricting democratic action. On 1 January 2016, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development came into force. […]
Democracy under attack – Freedom of Information & Speech
No Free SpeechThe democratic processes are under attack all around the world. This is not just arbitrary arrests and violence against those who express their opinions or defend the right to free speech. The emergence of digital media platforms has been heralded as a boost for democracy, activism and widening […]
Happy (convoluted) birthday, United Nations!
Today marks the 75th years since the United Nations came into existence in October 24, 1945. So much has happened since its launch and likewise so much is happening right now with clear consequences in the future. Looking at the UN’s history, it seems it has attended a cyclical, never-ending […]
Spanish/Hispanic/Latinx Day… Whose Day?
Today is bittersweet for so many. For some people in Spain, October 12 is a day to celebrate to dust off their military paraphernalia and march up and down wide avenues in Madrid while thousands of people flag national symbols and hum the anthem. All the political parties are expected […]